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PARIS, Sept. 21 (UPI) — Heirs to the French house of Bourbon have won a long-running court battle to inherit several former royal items after an inheritance dispute, lawyers said. Jacques d’Orleans and Helene d’Orleans, descendants of the Bourbon family that included French kings Louis XIII and Louis XIV, were …

BOLLENE, France, Aug. 25 (UPI) — A far-right French mayor has refused to marry a lesbian couple in defiance of a federal law that allows same-sex marriage. Marie-Claude Bompard, the mayor of the southern French town Bollene, met with Amandine Gilles, 33, and Angelique Leroux, 27, on Friday to tell …

PARIS, March 19 (UPI) — French authorities are returning seven works of art stolen or appropriated by Nazi Germany to their rightful owners Tuesday, officials said. The handover is part of the French government’s effort to return artwork to Jewish families who lost the pieces during the Holocaust, Radio France …

1812 Napoleon letter headed for auction FONTAINEBLEAU, France, Nov. 1 (UPI) — French auctioneers said a coded letter written by Napoleon Bonaparte with a promise to blow up the Kremlin is headed to the auction block. The Osenat auction house in Fontainebleau said the Oct. 20, 1812, coded letter was …

Firefighter alleges hair discrimination MONTEMILAR, France, Jan. 10 (UPI) — A French firefighter’s lawsuit against his department alleges he was targeted for discrimination because of his beard and long hair in a ponytail. Gilles Florent, 50, said most of his colleagues in Montemilar, in the Drome region, have very short …

PARIS, Dec. 11 (UPI) — Former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega left Paris Sunday, heading for Panama where he will serve 40 years in a “recently remodeled” jail, an official said. Noriega, 77, is being guarded by a group of six Foreign Ministry officials, police, doctors and a prosecutor on …

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, Sept. 12 (UPI) — An African National Congress youth leader has been found guilty of hate speech in South Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg. Judge Colin Lamont ruled Monday that Julius Malema’s singing of the song “Dubul’ ibhunu” which contains the line “shoot the white farmer,” was …

PARIS, April 28 (UPI) — A Nazi salute cost a young politician his position in France’s far-right Front National Party, officials said. Marine Le Pen, leader of the FN, expelled 20-year-old Alexandre Gabriac from the party after a photograph of him saluting a Nazi flag was published on a magazine …

SAINT ANDRE DE COTONE, Corsica, March 23 (UPI) — Police in Corsica said they are investigating the shooting death of a village mayor, the fifth politician to be assassinated on the island since 1990. Mayor Dominique Domarchi of Saint Andre de Cotone was shot to death as he climbed the …